Brunk, W., The Farm Horse in Cleveland. “It seems … that in this area it was comparatively late that the horse became the main source of power [replacing] the ox. …The land was ploughed in ‘rig and fur’ … and [thereby] a farmer on the plain claims that on a 10-acre field one gained about 1 acre … wooden ploughs were used well into [the 20th] century.” 1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 20-31.

CONTENTS OF VOLUMES: 1. A brief listing for Volume I, Part I, through to Volume X, Part LX. 1961. pp 67-74.
2. A brief listing for Volume I, Part I, through to Volume XI, Part LXI. 1962. pp 65-73.
3. From Volume I, Part I through to Volume XI, Part LXII. 1963. pp 72-80.
4. From Volume I, Part I, through to Volume XI, Part LXIII. 1964. pp 75-83.
5. From Volume I, Part I through to Volume XI, Part LXIV. 1965. pp 61-69.
6. From Volume I, Part I through to Volume XI, Part LXV. 1966. pp 72-80.
7. From Volume I, Part I through to Volume XII, Part LXVI. 1967. pp 73-82.
8. From Volume I, Part I through to Volume XII, Part LXVII. 1968. pp 67-76.
9. Volume XII only, Parts LXVI-LXVIII. 1969. page 53.
10. Volume XII only, Parts LXVI-LXIX. 1970 . page 61.

Dewhirst, Ian, Bill o’th’Hoylus End and “Th’History o’ Haworth Railway.” Discussion of and extracts from a 16-page pamphlet representing the dialect and humour of the Keighley – Haworth area, with its Brontë connections, in the 1860s. “A crookt legg’d pedlar com fra Keighley wun day wi winter-edges, and they tuke him for a sapper and miner et hed cum to mezhur for the railway, and mind yoh they did mak summat on him, they thout that the winter-edges wur the apparatus to mezhur by.” 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. pp 32-36.

Dewhirst, Ian, Hitler is a Bad Un! Prose piece in West Riding dialect. Difficulties experienced in trying to make a pet budgerigar curse the German leader. 1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 18-19.

Dewhirst, Ian, The Field Names of Near and Far Oxenhope in 1838. Lists types of names for “every scrap of land” dealt with in a valuation of the Haworth area in 1838. 1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 40-42.

editors (?), Book Review, of: North Country Tales: Brass, a West Riding Story, by William Beaumont. 1961 {Part LXI. Vol. XI}. pp 44-45.

editors (?), Book Review, of: The Viking Century in East Yorkshire, by A.L.Binns, University of Hull, East Yorkshire Local History Series monograph, No. 15, 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. “The Danes seemed to have preferred the East and North Ridings, whilst the Norwegians … settled more in the area of the Dales … In recent years the experts have tended to minimise the numbers of these settlers … but … Mr. Binns … still favours the older view. He … rightly stresses the value of the linguistic evidence.” 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. pp 51-52.

editors (?), Book Review, of: English Dialects, by G.L.Brook. “Dialect study is capable of exactness and precision and cannot be satisfied with a vaguely sentimental approach.” 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. page 52.

editors (?), Book Review, of: Mair Laeves fae Vagaland, by T.A.Robertson. Poems in Shetlandic – “To anyone who has not known ‘Shetlanrie’ spoken, there is no assistance in how to pronounce … it.” 1965 {Part LXV. Vol. XI}. page 36.

Ellis, Stanley, Dialectal English and the Scholar. A report on “one more, and possibly the last, co-ordinated, large-scale investigation” of the linguistic geography of dialect, namely the Survey of English Dialects. A sample question, “What do you call the place where you keep the animals that give you milk?” produced for the 34 Yorkshire locations cow-byre, cow-hole, cow-house, cow-hull, cow-shed, mistall, and shippon. This shows the presuppositions and tendency of the questioning: photograph of Professor Orton, Stanley Ellis and Dr W. J. Halliday at work, page 30, sample questionnaire result, page 33, “Cow-House” variant spot map for Northern England and Isle of Man, page 35. 1962 {Part LXII. Vol. XI}. pp 28-38.

E(llis?), S(tanley?), Book review, of: Phonematische Analyse des Dialekts von Gateshead-upon-Tyne, County Durham. (Cram, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg, 1966). “The great and lasting value of the work to a student of dialect is the first-class bibliography it contains…Great deal of the book … working over … other people’s writings and opinions…The problems of the investigation of town dialects … are so complex as to be insoluble, in the opinion of this reviewer … Dr Viereck’s attempt is a brave one.” 1967 {Part LXVII. Vol. XII}. pp 49-50.

(Ellis, Stanley?) Book review, of: Phonological Atlas of the Northern Region, by Eduard Kolb, Bern. “Maps are … spectacular in the presentation of this kind of material and most people will more readily receive from maps the immediate impact of the border between the North Midland type of dialect spoken in the West Riding, and the Northern speech of the East and North Ridings.” 1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 43-44.

E(llis?), S(tanley?), Book review of Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire by Gillian Fellows-Jensen. (Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1968). Names from the great partitioning of 876 to the ousting by Norman names after 1250. Over 350 pages. Orthography of names in records shows sound-changes: useful to show Scandinavian origins of names, including some placename elements. 1970 {Part LXX. Vol. XII}. page 35.

Halliday, W.J., The Retirement of Mrs McGrigor Phillips. Tribute to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe on retiring as President of the Y.D.S. “She has been our leading dialect poet for many years.” 1965 {Part LXV. Vol. XI}. pp 9-10.

H(alliday?), W.J., Book Review, of: The Golden Galloway and Other Verses, by Gwen Wade (Ridings Publishing Co., Driffield). “The dialect is never conventional or ordinary, and the versification is always harmonious and musical.” 1966 {Part LXVI. Vol. XII}. pp 49-50.

Harris, Dr Martin, Juncture and Pause in a South-Western Dialect. “Juncture” is the pause between words, often lost in English speech, even more so in that of South Zeal, Devon, the subject of this article. “However, there is another factor tending to work in the opposite direction. There is always a juncture feature [=short pause] … between the end of one intonation tune and the start of the next …[as in] ‘from this place here’ /fr məðıs ,plejs ,ji:r/ …” Interesting reference to speech intonation, a factor often overlooked or under-emphasised in dialect study. 1969 {Part LXIX. Vol. XII}. pp 25-29.

Hedger, Ruth, Ballade of Church Finance. Poem in North Riding dialect on the eternal round of jumble sales, etc., for funding a church, in the style of a medieval French ballade. 1964 {Part LXIV. Vol. XI}. page 16.

Jarratt, Arthur, The Innkeeper. Poem in East Riding dialect. The Nativity of the Lord Jesus at Bethlehem re-told with the innkeeper as the narrator.
Noo, God’s bairns is all on ’em lovely,
- Why, oor awn was a bonny, wee thing.
An’ Ah play wiv ’em, noss ’em, an’ love ’em –
Yit we knelt like we would tiv a king!
1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 14-15.

Kolb, Dr Eduard, An Exercise in Dialect Detection. Using the Basic Material of the “Survey of English Dialects” Dr Kolb manages to locate dialect speech recorded in literature to some spot between Heptonstall and Wibsey, before revealing that it is a question of the Haworth speech of old Joseph in Wuthering Heights. 1965 {Part LXV. Vol. XI}. pp 11 – 17.

LOWMAN, GUY S. – see Viereck, W.

McKelvie, D., Book Review, of: The Foals of Epona: A History of British Ponies from the Bronze Age to Yesterday, by A. Dent & D. Machin Goodall (Galley Press, London). The reviewer declares this equine history to be eminently readable. 1962 {Part LXII. Vol. XI}. pp 42-43.

McDavid, Raven I., Dialectology and the Integration of the Schools. Addressing the 2nd International Congress of Dialectologists, the author argues in favour of a linguistic element, supplied by the insights of dialectologists, in the accommodation of school teaching methods to disadvantaged groups – notably African-Americans of the U.S.A. “Mr Ellis of Leeds” in the discussion tried to apply this to in-migration into English cities, while “Mr Schmitt, of Marburg” commented on the variety of situations in which dialect and language difference reflected social patterns: each situation to be judged by its own merits, without reference to any other. Studies of the speeches of such places as Chicago, Akron and Tyneside are “more intensive applications of the traditional methods of dialectology, adapted to an urban situation.” 1965 {Part LXV. Vol. XI}. pp 18-27.

Orton, Professor Harold, Report on the S(urvey of) E(nglish) D(ialects): Northern Volume. “Readers may be reminded that the field investigations concerned in this … survey were carried on between 1950 and 1961, and that … 311 rural localities … were visited by … 9 fieldworkers, who secured their information by asking a small number of carefully selected, elderly dialect-speaking informants over 1300 questions.” “SELF is a Northern shibboleth ” – variant forms as myself, myseln, mysen, mysell; colloquial expressions for one’s husband or wife. Sample page of phonetic transcription of “to be” forms, page 10. 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. pp 8-13.

PAUSE – see Harris, M.

Phillips, Vincent H., Oral Traditions and the Folk Museum. How the Welsh Folk Museum at St. Fagans Castle, near Cardiff, seeks to express the material and non-material culture of the Welsh people through otherwise non-related objects, assisted by interviews with older people who may have used such objects – “an overwhelming task of collection”. Folk traditions are seen to be “assimilated from earlier generations through communication on the hearth”, but “the actual content of oral tradition can never be defined exactly alike for all countries”. 1963 {Part LXIII. Vol. XI}. pp 13-19.

Sanderson, Stewart F., The University of Leeds Folk Life Survey. Material collected included children’s games and songs from Leicester, Manchester, Leeds and Guiseley, Easter customs from Lancashire, the craft of needle, etc. making in Redditch, “250 items” of “general folklore” from Wetwang, and no less than 75 “folksongs” from the North Riding. Framework established from the index of University of Uppsala and Nordisk Museum folk collections. Sample questionnaire on Easter eggs on page 41. 1962 {Part LXII. Vol. XI}. pp 38-41.

SCANDINAVIAN – see E(llis), S. Also see VIKINGS.

SCARBOROUGH – see Forster, G.

SELF AS NORTHERN SHIBBOLETH – Orton, H.

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD – see Waddington-Feather, J.

Shaw, George Bernard, facsimile of letters sent to Ben Turner, 1923, asking for stories in dialect to give “Northern” colour to his character of St. Joan. Loose leaf in Transactions 1969 {Part LXIX. Vol. XII}.

Thomson, R.L., Book Review, of: The Dialect of George Meriton’s “A Yorkshire Dialogue” (1683) by Christopher Dean (Y.D.S. reprint 1962). Although Meriton’s work is “ill-constructed doggerel” Professor Dean makes use of it to examine the pronunciation of particular vowels and other linguistic features. 1962 {Part LXII. Vol. XI}. pp 43-45.

Thomson, R.L., Celtic Place-Names in Yorkshire. Intriguing but often unconvincing shots at Brythonic etymologies. “There is … little sign that the Brythonic language continued in use long enough to be regarded as Old Welsh in this region.” – yet Thomson mentions Catraeth (Catterick) in the 6th-century Welsh poems of Aneurin, set locally in this area, as well as the Efrawg (York) of the chroniclers. 1964 {Part LXIV. Vol. XI}. pp 41-55.

Viereck, Dr. Wolfgang (University of Hamburg), Book Review, of: Survey of English Dialects (B): The Basic Material: Vol. IV: The Southern Counties, edited by Harold Orton & Martyn F.Wakelin. “The attention of … dialectologists seems to have been more attracted by the North than the South of the British Isles. This is especially true of German Anglists.” 1967 {Part LXVII. Vol. XII}. pp 45-46.

Viereck, Dr W., Guy S. Lowman’s Contribution to British English Dialectology. Lowman was a native of Columbia, Missouri, who studied under phoneticist Daniel Jones in London, and, after investigating for publications on U.S. dialects made his contribution to the English southern counties dialectology. Distribution maps for dialect variants on “earthworm”, etc. page 35. Imperfections in method lead to unclear vision of the origins of dialect vocabulary in America. 1968 {Part LXVIII. Vol. XII}. pp 32-39.

Waddington-Feather, John, Sir Ben Turner (1863 – 1942). Turner, from a poor working-class background, grew up in a dialect environment and was an early member of the Y.D.S. as well as radical socialist politician. On a 1920 visit to Russia, he “told Lenin bluntly that he disapproved of Soviet revolutionary methods.” Includes an account of letters by George Bernard Shaw sent to Ben Turner, 1923, asking for stories in dialect to give “Northern” colour to his character of St. Joan. 1969 {Part LXIX. Vol. XII}. pp 14-20.

Wakelin, Martyn F., Book Review, of: The Dialect of Dentdale in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensis), by Bertil Hedevind. “We gather that during the time [Dr Hedevind] spent in Dentdale … he came to know his informants extremely well … helping them with the haymaking…The development of M[iddle] E[nglish] ō (Dent /iu/) will be of interest …” 1967 {Part LXVII. Vol. XII}. pp 47-49.

Widdowson, J.D.A., The Dialect of Filey: A Selection of Terms Concerning Fishing and the Sea.
“BUTT: The halibut …
CAVE: to separate old bait, seaweed and other unwanted material from a used fishing line…
WOLF, WUFF: Catfish.”
1966 {Part LXVI. Vol. XII}. pp 28-41.

Wright, Dr. P., Proposal for a Short Questionnaire for Use in Fishing Communities. “A number of phonetic and grammatical curiosities …(e.g.) Staithes folk ‘fork’, kolk ‘cork’ … and Filey kelk ‘church’ … Marshside (Lancs.) Bobm ‘Bob’, ladn ‘lad’, pign ‘pig’… frequent phonetic absorption [and disappearance] of the and a … Informants should be elderly natives, should have lived in the locality up to age 20 … and most or all of the time since then.” Among the “notions to be named” are “the seats in a coble, from stem to stern: Carling Thoft, Forethoft, Midshipthoft, Loose Thoft, After Thoft.” 1964 {Part LXIV. Vol. XI}. pp 27-32.